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Autopsy Case Reports, 2023 Mucormycosis is a life-threatening fungal infection caused by mucormycetes, fungi of the Mucorales order.1 Rhino-orbital-cerebral involvement is the most common form of invasive mucormycosis. However, gastrointestinal (GI) mucormycosis cases have increased in the last two to three decades.2 Involvement of the GI tract in invasive mucormycosis is seen ...
Sourav Bhowmik +3 more
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Rhinocerebral mucormycosis: A report of two cases
Journal of Indian Academy of Oral Medicine and Radiology, 2015 Mucormycosis is an acute opportunistic infection caused by saprophytic fungus of class Phycomycetes order Mucorales and family Mucoracae, found in soil, bread molds, and decaying fruits and vegetables. Even though this fungus is ubiquitous in the nature,
Venkateswarlu Nallapu +3 more
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Antibiotics, 2022 Mucormycosis is a rare fungal infection, with high mortality, commonly associated with diabetes, malignancies, immunosuppressive therapy, and other immunodeficiency conditions.
Manuela Arbune +4 more
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Skin mucormycosis presenting as an erythema-nodosum-like rash in a renal transplant recipient: a case report [PDF]
, 2008 Introduction Cutaneous mucormycosis is a rare entity related to kidney transplantation. It usually presents with ecthyma-like lesions and black necrotic cellulitis.
Nader Nouri-Majalan +16 more
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COVID-19 associated mucormycosis and their therapeutics
HeliyonMucormycosis has spread rapidly in the COVID-19 and post-COVID-19 patients having low immunity and co-morbidities. It is also related to excessive use of corticosteroids, immunosuppressants, antibiotics, and unhygienic conditions.
Bhaswati Chatterjee, Suman S. Thakur
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Disseminated tuberculosis and gastric mucormycosis coinfection
IDCases, 2019 Tuberculosis and mucormycosis coinfection has rarely been reported in the medical literature. We present a case of gastrointestinal (GI) mucormycosis in a diabetic patient with disseminated tuberculosis.
Alexandre Malek +3 more
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Avicenna Journal of Medicine, 2021 Mucormycosis (also known as black fungus) is caused by fungi of the Zygomycetes class and is the third most common invasive mycosis after candidiasis and aspergillosis. They colonize a large number of patients without invading them.
Suman Kumar Ray, Sukhes Mukherjee
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Frontiers in Neurology, 2020 Isolated cerebral mucormycosis is a clinical type of mucormycosis that is estimated to account for 8% of all mucormycosis cases. The clinical symptoms of isolated cerebral mucormycosis are elusive, and thus conventional techniques often lake sensitivity ...
Gao-jia Zhang +9 more
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Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2022 Background: Mucormycosis is a life-threatening, invasive fungal disease that mostly affects immunocompromised hosts. In this study, we aimed to assess the clinical presentations and outcomes of patients with mucormycosis in a tertiary care hospital in ...
Hassan Almarhabi +7 more
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Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis complicating COVID-19 in the ICU - A case report. [PDF]
, 2021 It is not yet known, if critically ill COVID-19 patients are prone to fungal infections. We report a 69-year-old patient without typical risk factors for invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA), who developed IPA two weeks after onset of symptoms.
Eller, Philipp +5 more
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